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Character vs. Plot: The Chicken or the Egg?

R.L. Naquin - March 21, 2012

The simple answer to whether plot or character is more important is that it depends on what genre you’re talking about. If you write literary fiction, character is king. The plot is secondary. But I don’t write literary fiction. In genre fiction, specifically urban fantasy for me, both are of equal importance. A great plot […]

Character and Plot: A Healthy Codependence

Larry Jenkins - March 19, 2012

Hypothetical: Someone walks up to you on the street and says, “Character or plot driven?” Let’s go ahead and assume they’re not wearing their favorite shade of inmate orange. Oh, and they don’t have on one of those snazzy jackets with the sleeves that latch together at the back. Aside from slowly backing away while […]

Surprise!

Angela Kordahl - March 8, 2012

In character development, as in a lot of other aspects of writing, having a good reader is an essential part of the writing process. A response helps clarify if you have communicated what you intended to, or if you have written down quite another world than the one inside your head. Classic writing class instruction […]

Show Me Yours, and I’ll Show You Mine

Larry Jenkins - March 5, 2012

For a couple semesters in college, I tried my hand at being a photographer. I was average at best, but enthusiasm carried me through the classes. Of all the things that I learned from both a technical and aesthetic standpoint, the critique sessions are what stick with me. I have very clear memories of my […]

Commercial Breaks and Soundtracks

Ashley M. Hill - March 2, 2012

It’s all music and television for me. Though not together. That’s just silly. I’m really into television as a medium. I will marathon a television show just so I can watch a whole story unfold at once; it’s the closest we get to novels in a visual format, if novels had filler episodes. (It’s not […]